The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-24

All Night With a Snake.
GEORGIA
a soap factory is to be established al
Rome
Oglethorpe's new court house was dedi
Gated last Monday.
G. f. Newton, prominent citizen OF
Griffin, died Thursday
John Hogan, Of Waycross, had a finger
broken by catching base ball day or two
ago. He Is getting on very nicely.
Horse thefts have become so frequent at
Gainesville that the existence of a regularly
organized gang of thieves Is suspected.
DR. W. B. Burroughs of Brunswick, has
a State and county tax receipt for s5 0S
given to Mrs. Fink Of Savannah, in 1922.
Hon. n. j. Hammond has closed up all his
public business in Washington, and has re
turned to Atlanta and resumed the practice
of law.
There was gentlemen in Rome Thursday
whohad fine specimen of silver from the
mountains near Rome 1t was valued at
about So
After the last annual meeting of stock
holders at Augusta the Graniteville factory
directors declared a semi-annual dividend of
5 per cent, payable on July l.
At Waycross Rev. Mr. Burch read to the
congregation Monday night a request for
1t was from a lady of that town.
The agents of the loan associations
coined money loaning money in Bulloch
last winter. One of them averaged $500
per month commissions during the winter.
Sam Small and Sam Jones left Atlanta
Friday for Minneapolis, where they will fill
an engagement Of several weeks. Mr. Small
thinks that his health is gradually improv-
ing.
Blakely Ne'cS: The SAVANNAH News
has donned bright new dress Just as nature
has donned her new robe. May the News
continue TO be as reliable and prosperous as it
now is.
Syl1ie Hudson, the negro woman who a
few days ago so brutally murdered another
woman with whom she lived, was tried and
convicted of murder in the Superior Court
at Americas Thursday.
Mr.. Robinson is in Dalton making con
tracts for shipments of manganese and iron
ore to South Pittsburg and to Dayton. From
one single point in the county he has en-
gagged 1000 tons of ore.
The report that the steamer Pope Catlin
was hbeled at Brunswick Wednesday is
erroneous, the libel having been made here.
The steamer will make her advertised ex-
cursions as usual, notwithstanding.
A day or two ago an old colored woman
entered one of the stores at Waycross and
asked for some goods, which she said she
wanted charged to her husband. When
asked what her husbands name was she
could not tell, but said she would step out
side and find out from some other negroes
who were standing near.
Gainesville Courdnt-Americdn The SA-
vANNAH MORNING News, in its bright, new
spring dress, looks more like real metro
politan daily than any of our Southern
papers 1t is lovely, and goes to prove
what a thorough newspaper man is at the
helm. Col. Estill can well go out into the
back yard and extend congratulations tc
himself
When old man Washington King killed
himself in Vineville, suburb of Macon
Sunday night, an investigation led to the
fact that he left an estate valued at $3.50
He had wife, who was the mother of sew
eral children when he married her He has
an illegitimate son himself Another man
came in and applied for letters of admins
tration on the estate and these members OF
the King family appeared as heirs. As the
circumstances of the case precluded the
possibility of their coming in as legal heirs
they were told that they were barred There
being no other heirs the property will revert
to the State. 1t will some day be SNUG
little speck in the hands of some man if the
boom continues.
An old gentleman arrived at Waycross
on the train from Florida on Monday last
holding ticket for Eufaula, Ala. Having
TO change cars at Waycross, he lay oveI
there five or six hours for the train which
was 10 take him on his journey. Before tn,
time came for him TO leave, however, Mr.
s Watson, the efficient night Waterman at the
6ayannah, Florida and Western depot, dis
covered that the old man was deranged and
had become perfectly unmanageable. Mr.
watson therefore as a precaution against
his getting in the way of the trains anC
being run over, notified the Sheriff, who
took him in charge and placed him in Jail
/ He gave his name as Bryant, and said he
lived in Alabama.
Montezuma Record: Not long since Mr.
Fletch Norris burned brush heap down il
his swamp near the river. A large moe
casin happened to have his winter home
directly under the heap, and when it began
70 get hot he attempted to make his escape
from the fiery furnace, but he was not like
the three Hebrew children. About week
after Mr.. Norris went to the same spot and
saw one-half of the reptile protruding out
OF the ground, burned into a crisp The
head was burned until it turned inside out
and presented a CHASTITY sight. His little
dog spied the apparently lifeless snake anc
went for him lively. After two or three
attempts he jerked the snake from the hole
and the half of the body concealed in tn,
ground jumped, squirmed and wiggled
around just like live snake. 1t must b,
remembered that weeks time Intervene
between the time the heap was burned anC
the snake found.
The Baptist Convention Of the State o
Georgia was first organized in 1922 whei
scarcely 5000 Baptists answered TO the rol
call of faith in the State. The representa-
ton of the denomination, at the convention
now assembled at Albany, is from a mem
bership Of over 100000, of churcl
members Of this convention. At Rome
Ca, in 1886, the convention re
ported $4,000, lin round numbers,) repre-
sented, Within the last Associations
year 10000 have been adde's
to that number through accessions b,
baptism, which swells the total 10 100 500
The colored Baptists Of Georgia have l4G,
900 communicates which, together with th,
Missionary and Hardshel white Baptists
makes the grand total OF the army Of Bap
list workers enlisted under the banner D.
Christ. 900 The Georgia State conven
ton has had but five moderators within In,
fitiy-eight years Of It's existence
Sheriff James Roberts. Of Hart county
f'clates n thrilling adventure with a snake
One night he was asleep in bed IN an IN
ceilod house. During the night he wa,
awakened by the touch Of something cold
on his cheek, and he az once g'alizcd that d
hinge snake was crawling Hcross his face
lie was afraid 90 move and afraid % lie still
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